The severe poverty cast doubts on the young man, whether he would be able to marry the love of his heart, Rachel (Rachel), whom he met in an immigrant camp on their way from Morocco to Israel. She was ready to get married despite everything. He feared. His parents went to her parents empty-handed and the families decided on David and Rachel’s wedding, David Levy later told journalist Aryeh Avneri, in the biography he wrote about him.
The couple had 10 children, two of whom continue their political career – Jackie served as mayor of Beit Shean, and was previously a member of the Knesset and deputy minister of construction and housing, an office where his father served as minister. Orly Levy-Abacsis She was a member of the Knesset and a former minister. Maxim Levy, David Levy’s brother, was the mayor of Lod and a member of the Knesset.
Rachel found a living in a school kitchen, while David remained unemployed. “There were days when the house was so empty that I waited for Rachel to come home from work and bring me some food from the kitchen,” Lavneri said, describing days of distress and shame in view of the inability to provide for the family. All of Imo’s jewelry has been sold. “I burst into tears in the street after the sale of the jewelry, go explain to the residents of Haifa what the ‘working class’ plight is,” described in the book. Out of desperation he entered the labor office one day, kicked open a door and caused “quite a commotion”, as he defined it. He was arrested by the police and the judge sent him to 12 days of confinement at the police station in Beit Shan.
He asked his wife and parents not to come to visit him. He told Aryeh Avneri that “During the entire time I was in prison, I did not shave. I wanted to have a mournful face, and when I looked at my face, in the toilets of the detention cell, tears would flow from my eyes. I cried for the cruelty of life and the cruelty that could grow in me. All these days One image came back before my eyes – the day we left Rabat, with so much love for Eretz Israel, with so much faith and hope. I also had before my eyes the image of the many days before leaving Rabat, the eve of Seder, the days when Abba was upright – Tall and proud, the days when joy sang in our home.”
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